Category Archives: spirituality

Favorite Friday: Even bindweed brings gifts

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Bindweed is thick and happy right now—at its seasonal height—and gardeners are scrambling to keep it under control. A year ago at this time I wondered: If every being serves some positive purpose, what might bindweed be contributing? The post … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, spirituality | Tagged attitudes toward nature, ethnobotany, native plants, TEK, traditional environmental knowledge, weeds | Comments Off

Favorite Friday: Words and trees

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Note from Priscilla: You saw it once, but that blog post disappeared without making the Top Ten. Favorite Friday is a chance to revisit earlier posts and enjoy them once again. This post first appeared on March 17, 2010. This … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, spirituality | Tagged animism, attitudes toward nature, cosmology, language, science and religion, trees | Comments Off

Breaking the climate silence

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

We know it’s getting worse; we’re not climate deniers. We’re well informed and aware of the facts. And yet we go about our lives as if nothing has changed. We live the same way we lived five years ago, before … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, politics, spirituality | Tagged climate change, climate denial, climate silence, climate support group, Gary Snyder, global warming | 21 Comments

The genius of the grass

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Note from Priscilla: I am delighted to welcome guest blogger Julene Bair, whose essays on connecting with the prairie lands of her birth caught my attention for bringing heart and soul to the problems of the disappearing family farm and … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, politics, spirituality | Tagged family farm, Joshua Farley, Prairie Festival, prairie grass, Sandra Steingraber, Scott Russell Sanders, shortgrass prairie, The Land Institute, Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson | 7 Comments

Valuing the spaceship we’ve got

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

In a lecture I attended last night, Daniel Lerch, editor of the immensely informative Post Carbon Reader, opened with that iconic picture of Earth shot from Apollo 8 as it circled the moon at Christmastime 1968: No doubt inspired (again) … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, politics, spirituality | Tagged climate change, dreams, global warming, reciprocity, space travel, sustainability | 1 Comment

On angel food cake and Earth care

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

My New Year’s took an unexpected turn, shaped by two events—one intensely personal and the other happening halfway around the world. In Australia, the state of Queensland was slammed with floods affecting an area twice the size of California. Closer … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, spirituality | Tagged climate change, earth care, earthcare, global warming, nature as kin | 9 Comments

The rights of nature, from Cochabamba to Cancún

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

They didn’t get much press—the 15,000 or so people who gathered last April in Cochabamba, Bolivia, for a different kind of climate gathering. Discouraged by what the world “leaders” failed to accomplish last December at the UN meeting in Copenhagen, … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, politics, spirituality | Tagged animism, Cancun, climate change, Cochabamba, COP16, indigenous traditions, Rights of Mother Earth, rights of nature | 18 Comments